The fediverse is an opportunity learned societies can’t ignore
blogs.lse.ac.uk
Just as social media has become ubiquitous in academia, its established formats and dynamics have been brought into doubt. Björn Brembs argues that learned societies concerned with their core missi…
  • Lvxferre@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Usually I’d make a per-quote analysis, but let’s cut off the crap: the author seems to imply that the fediverse model would work great with science, and I agree with him - it’s a way to not rely on central (and greedy) authorities while still sorting the trash out, by defederation. That wouldn’t be a Mastodon or a Lemmy though, but something else.

    Here’s a specially stupid/HN-like/dumb comment:

    Federation is an example of solving an imaginary problem by creating a bunch of very real problems.

    “I don’t see the problem, and I’m an assumer, so I assooome that it’s imaginary lol lmao.”

    In the meantime, Musk and Greedy Pigboy laughing from a distance.

    • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      That wouldn’t be a Mastodon or a Lemmy though, but something else.

      It could be similar to Lemmy - a kind of federated Academia.edu where each society runs it’s own instance and then the “communities” would be the journals with each paper getting a separate post and then people could comment about them or cross-post the paper to Lemmy or Mastodon if it is relevant. It would be relatively trivial to fork Lemmy and hack it into the format required to publish journal articles through it.